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New comment by ramraj07 in "Elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, and platform.claude.com"

ramraj07 — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 11:42:00 +0000

The post was about their uptime. How is this relevant.

Even if it vaguely is, why do people think subjective anecdotal thoughts about which model is better are a good discussion topic. If there’s an objective evaluation idea that would be useful.

I run evals for a very specific domain. Opus 5.5 is still the industry leader (we can’t use Fable class yet).

New comment by ramraj07 in "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair"

ramraj07 — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 04:41:06 +0000

He is the the tech CEO most aligned with the current government’s optimism towards the AI build out and also its key orchestrator. What are the odds he will be held to any real punishment ?

New comment by ramraj07 in "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair"

ramraj07 — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 04:38:23 +0000

What OP is implying is that the Board likely implicitly condoned any effort Jensen would take to make sales to China including making underhanded deals that look like honeypot operations but may as well have been a double honeypot operation. The implication is that the outcome of said affair was actually good for Nvidia. You imply that the interests of Nvidia and the US government and by extension the US public are aligned. That’s a citation-needed level assumption. Nvidia just wants to make money. The government hopefully has different interests.

New comment by ramraj07 in "Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics"

ramraj07 — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 03:01:00 +0000

You tell this as if the Universities and departments where the research happened didn’t place themselves in ivory towers.

Pedigree mattered in academia. Gatekeeping was always rampant. So to a bystander like me this makes no difference.

Show HN: I added stacked subgraphs to Mermaid flowcharts

ramraj07 — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 21:32:01 +0000

I’m an avid user of mermaid but am constantly annoyed by their limitation that subgraphs do not follow direction if any internal nodes are connected to the outside. So I asked Claude to add a new syntax called stack layout and it seems to work pretty elegantly.

I also fixed my annoyance with mermaid.live and allowed this playground to save snapshots in your local storage as well. Happy to add more storage features if anyone’s interested!

The one prompt fork is at https://github.com/ramraj07/ra-mermaid

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50236250

Points: 1

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New comment by ramraj07 in "Harness Engineering 101: The LLM is the brain, the harness is the body"

ramraj07 — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:40:07 +0000

Then point it to the Anthropic docs. Only place with reliable info. Look at their opus 5.5 prompting guide.

New comment by ramraj07 in "Harness Engineering 101: The LLM is the brain, the harness is the body"

ramraj07 — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:28:18 +0000

The best places where I get this info is from the ai engineer YouTube channel and Claude’s YouTube channel.

For effective harness engineering you need to also read the detailed prompting guide for each model. We are back at a place where every model revision introduces harness optimizations that need to happen.

You seem to be doing all the right things though. The tldr is treat your agent to be a precocious kid and the job of the harness is to helicopter parent it without the kid realizing it’s being parented.

New comment by ramraj07 in "Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?"

ramraj07 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:28:23 +0000

The irony is that he’s still very very wrong in my opinion. He’s lamenting the end of math, but it’s not a stretch to think that math is just the beginning. Like the destruction of the buoy before the tsunami actually hits land. His current stance seems to be implicating that the blast radius is only till math or science when it’s just the first domino.

New comment by ramraj07 in "Siri is so bad at everything"

ramraj07 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:29:43 +0000

As far as I can tell, the AI team assembled in Apple has a fundamental instinct problem and I was hoping that the exodus earlier this year will fix it, but looks like it did not.

New comment by ramraj07 in "Show HN: Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land"

ramraj07 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:25:31 +0000

What would realistically be a ballpark expense for basic living (I assume you mean food water and power)

New comment by ramraj07 in "OpenCode 2.0"

ramraj07 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:38:24 +0000

An ec2 or vps. But no sandbox can solve the problem that a true powerful harness would need access to the source of your information like slack and jira.

New comment by ramraj07 in "Do dentists know what they're doing?"

ramraj07 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:48:32 +0000

It’s not a kid, they’re 30 now looks like.

New comment by ramraj07 in "Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work"

ramraj07 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:51:54 +0000

People made the exact same argument for years where Facebook stock stayed around 20 bucks post ipo. I did too and sold like an idiot!

New comment by ramraj07 in "Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) 2026 Cancelled"

ramraj07 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 03:42:09 +0000

This is not very international. Firstly DEI is apparently nongrata in the US now. On top of it GHC got a terrible reputation in recent years.

New comment by ramraj07 in "OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room"

ramraj07 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:09:44 +0000

If you think about it that’s more likely than any other explanation.

New comment by ramraj07 in "OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room"

ramraj07 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:39:32 +0000

Smart people can do dumb things. Their LinkedIn profile looks typical for an OpenAI engineer.

We also don’t know if this person did it under duress.

New comment by ramraj07 in "Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues"

ramraj07 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:49:24 +0000

They made the judgement call to make private accounts free before the onslaught of AI. Now every coding agent is using GitHub as their file system backend and pushing it to limits no one has heard of.

If Microsoft had brains they would leverage it to become the de facto file system for all ai agents before cursor or anthropic figure it out.

New comment by ramraj07 in "Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac"

ramraj07 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:14:00 +0000

How good is parakeet (assuming it’s Sota oss) compared to wisprflow? Wisprflow is magical ime

New comment by ramraj07 in "Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]"

ramraj07 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:01:02 +0000

We don’t even know how acitaminophen works, thousands get their livers destroyed every year from it when alternatives exist, and we are yet to ban it. So how is all of the new reality any different?

New comment by ramraj07 in "Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]"

ramraj07 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:59:35 +0000

Do you think the current clinical trial process has not been gamed close to the edge of uselessness ?

Do you know about the fiasco with the Alzheimer’s drug that has collectively cost humanity hundreds of billions?

I don’t see how an indecipherable AI based cure can be more misaligned.